Posthumanizing the eye: creating distributed gaze through machine art
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2020-06
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Treske, Andreas
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English
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This thesis explores the adaptation of distributed cognition theory to the concept of distributed gaze between the artwork and the viewer, through machine art. This mechanical mixed media eye sculpture displays the probability of sharing the gazing agency between the human and the non-human actor. This project is not merely representing the eye but rather post-humanizing it, arguing that this recreation of the human organ will present the viewer with a new paradigm that puts both parties in a proactive position. Beyond the technological materiality’s implication, without disconnecting with the hardware component, the human eye meets with its muse, the human.
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Media and Visual Studies
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Master's
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MA (Master of Arts)